Come back soon!

Don't come back the country has fallen

Will is right , unfortunately.

I'm from Newark upon Trent, on the Nottingham and Lincolnshire border. you may have stationed near by, at one point. I'll have Fish, chips and Pint, for you this weekend

@@grahamfisher5436 thanks lol... I was actually stationed down in Cornwall at RAF St Mawgan.. so beautiful down there, but I liked all of England. I did not know it at the time until I started doing genealogy of my own family, but one of my father's direct bloodline came from Devon County in the 1600s.

More likely Norse settlers as most of the settlement in Ireland was based upon Norwegian (Norse) migration around the top of Scotland to Iceland and down what is now the Irish Sea.

What town is that? Would like to visit these places one day.

@@Norwegian733 The Kingdom of Dublin was once a Norwegian Ruled Kingdom. Unfortunately, its history has been heavily corrupted by the viking fetish so its hard to work out what really happened.

@@MrDidz Thanks.

@@Norwegian733 Ingismund and his warband when they were expelled from Dublin were granted land by Aethelflaed lady of Mercia, on the wirral , to show their gratitude they attacked Chester, however being forewarned, the good people of Chester were ready, happily in the present day the Hiberno Norse names live on ..in particular...having the only English football club with a viking Hiberno Norse name...you hopefully will join our Norwegian fans...E

Yes you are walking where someone did a long time ago. Reminds one of the Dead poets Society where the Teacher Robin Williams says as if the people in the photo were speaking " remember us , seize the day! "

@@lastfirst78 it's awesome. Need to watch that one. What is the name of it?

One must not fall into the trap of glorifying the Viking as they were evil murderous thieves at your door who would murder all of you family to rape daughters and get at your savings. They never went away they set up government who still take your savings today .

@@kevinjamesparr552 history is history. I never stated I was glorifying it, I said it was interesting. I like to learn about history and when it’s local, it peaks my interest and via DNA Ancestry, I’ve also learnt some of those Vikings are my ancestors.

If you get a chance, go visit England. But not just the cities. Get out and drive around that country.

700’s up the 1000 or a little higher that’s why I want to go!! I want to stand where the wars where!!! All of that amazing historyi

It’s fookin boring

@@Wonderkid44 love history of it all

Ditto.... I did and when I did, I knew places that I shouldn't have known about and things that I shouldn't have known about as an American, so yes I was at British citizen and a previous life.

LOL good spotting.

Yes, I noticed that as well

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King Pybba was my 40th great grandfather. You and I are, perhaps, cousins.

Maybe check out some indigenous history, frankly it’s highly undervalued and it’s incredibly ancient, in fact it’s thought that aboriginal people settled Australia thousands and thousands of years before we even thought that people had invented boats. And the deep and continual racism against them is highly upsetting. Hope you appreciate where you live because I would LOVE to be able to learn more about the native Australians by traveling there

@@maddieb.4282 I’ve done a little research into indigenous history, specifically in the area we live, and a little more into artwork and it is quite interesting, however as my family heritage is European, I’ve always been very interested in researching my history, particularly my surname as there a group of people near Poland with the same name, and I’d like to see if I’m able to trace my lineage back to there.

You could drop the U.K. in Australia and lose it, and yet it's just packed with so many historical wonders.

Ivan the boneless was said to be 9 feet tall in some folk law accounts. But shhh your not allowed to talk about that kind of thing.😉

@@raclark2730 Ivar. Ivar is also the father of the Ferguson clan in Scotland and his dna is seen all over the UK and Ireland mostly in Scotland and Ireland. All of these guys seem to be giants though in folklore.

@Clappy No hes my great grandads great great great great great more greats cousin on his sister Fionas side. I read about it on IrishDNA.truth. bruh.

@Clappy Dats dee one to be sure.

@Clappy You could say it was a bit of a stretch.

Right? Can’t believe they just glossed over that.

Nope, scattered. Some guy said he saw the head in a teacher’s classroom though as well as some other guy saying the bones were kept in his father’s chest. Either way it’s lost now

@@EternalShadow1667 Typical :( Ah well, thanks for the updated info.

Look up the mound people buried all their remains in massive mounds around the world all to be 7-15 feet tall

@@Badboyteddybear Yep! Exactly!

Repent to Jesus Christ “But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one.” ‭‭2 Thessalonians‬ ‭3:3‬ ‭NIV‬‬

i think they knew.

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I’ll have to visit and pay my respects to my ancestors and the AllFather during a visit sometime in the near future.

Yeah! I have these fantasies too. A few miles up the road from me is a location referred to locally as The Danish Camp'. There is actually quite a nice cafe there and there is a couple of depressions which are said to be where the Danes hauled their boats out of the river to repair them. The assumption being that this was a Danish Trading Post on the river Ouse just within the Danish Borough of Bedford. Not more than a few miles from that is a village that just happens to have my surname and i often fantasize that my ancestors founded that settlement having alighted from a boat at The Danish Camp. But it is just a fantasy. In fact, the Danish Camp is on the wrong side of the river to actually be Danish and whilst its nice to imagine my ancestors founded a settlement in practice its more likely that the settlement and my surname just hare a common ancestry as both were apparently North European words that meant something like Forester or 'He who lives near the forest'. So the village may well have been founded by anyone from Northern Europe and named because it was close to a forest. Still I like to dream.

@@MrDidz Most people from mainland Britain hail from Denmark & Northern Germany due to the many many influxes of peoples from those areas. The U.K. also used to be connected by land to the northern parts of Europe via a now submerged area of land that went by the name Dogerland which is why the Gaels of Scotland and Ireland share the same blonde and red hair traits of Northern Europeans. This is also why Pre-Christian ruins of the whole of Great Britain contain many artefacts and talismans, pendants etc that are clearly Germanic in nature, the proto-germanic versions of Thor’s hammer being a very common archaeological find dating back way before the arrival of Christianity or even the Viking Era. Regardless, both of my father’s parents can trace their lineages back to Norman soldiers or Nordic families that came to the U.K. with William Duke of Normandy-a man who claimed descent from royal Viking blood.

@@dragonofhatefulretribution9041 my Surname, goes back to North Germany

@@grahamfisher5436 We’re all close family in Great Britain-on average every man and woman are roughly 13th/14th cousins. The natives anyway.. Not the modern population, obviously.

That is very true i live in the easy midlands near elvaston avalston and thulston and i cant remember the story but they are named after vikings also near me is a likely a place where vikings were buried but it is not uncovered and still underground

The Danes would have been the descendents of the Saxon Jutes who invaded England four hundred years earlier. In 1002 on St. Brice's Day, King Ehelraed the Unready ordered the killing of Danes. Even those who had lived in England for 100 years. The numbers killed are unknown but it seems many were massacred.

Nice and I'm proud to be R-L48 (though Canadian) with Danish in my mix way back.

Your aware their main source of income was slavery? They soon learnt that money could be made by selling captives to arab slave traders keen to acquire fair skinned people. I'm not blaming the Vikings it's just funny in todays cancel culture world that the slavery aspect of the norsemen has been forgotten.

Just love Jan Molby, s scouser accent ex Liverpool midfielder, Lobscouse brought to Merseyside by the Norwegian Whalers in the 19th century ...we have quite a few Scandinavian fans who come to Merseyside for all the Merseyside football clubs..

@@markhirstwood4190 Hi Mark, there is a monument to the Royal Canadian navy here on the Pier head in Liverpool for the pivotal role they played in the battle of the Atlantic..

I héard the book puts modern ideas into the medieval world, which is always a huge mistake, and this has stopped me buying it. Does it promulgate women fighting? If it does then its ideology not history

No, outside of women who may have been rulers/leaders of some sort it is not heavy on the idea of women warriors. It reports the archeological evidence that has been found to date and states the difficulty of coming to an accurate conclusion from what has been found. The real theme of the book is, “those ole boys sure got around”. I certainly enjoy reading this book.

Sea wolves is good too

Yes ,it is exactly that . Unbelievable.

So in the1700s some workman finds this jumble of bones ,some 300 in all. and decides there is a 9 foot skeleton among them... Have you seen that jumble? Instead of starting complot theories better start using your brain...

gossip plus time equals legend

@@wiretamer5710 Sorry I didn't realize you were unaware of the facts of history.

@@patverum9051 You've never read where complete skeletons of giants were discovered individually?? Really?

@Clappy could you atleast spell ivar correctly

She certainly does...making history interesting...

Denise, Why would you make such an uninformed statement? I know you have heard, "couldn't see the forest for trees"? Explore your country and see the world.

When DNA first became a 'thing' 20 odd years ago, there was a program looking for 'Blood of the Vikings'. They couldn't find any DNA that was specifically 'Viking' because the DNA of the Viking settlement regions was virtually identical to modern day Danes. (Apart from locality markers.) So from the Thames Estuary up to Yorkshire. Liverpool, Dublin and Glasgow were Viking trading hubs.

@@mukhumor A 20 year DNA study published in 2015 found little impact on the genetic makeup of the British from the Romans, Viking Danes or Normans. They may have conquered but there were comparatively few of them compared to the existing population. The Anglo Saxons, however, were the only conquering force to contribute substantially to the genetic makeup.

@@Wotsitorlabart Anglo Saxon DNA is predominantly R1a haplogroup. Britain is still R1b haplogroup dominant.

@@mukhumor Within Britain, the most common is l1. Associated with the Anglo-Saxon and the Vikings.

My wife is from Missouri and her dna had 40% Scandinavian which i thought was incredibly high. The surename I thought it came from was Johnston. And they were said to have immigrated from Wales. I thought it was odd that the percentage would be so high and the family have no knowledge of it.

I live in Suffolk as well, I'm a direct descendant of Norse kings including Rolo and Viking's.

My surname is pre-7th century Old English/Germanic and translates to Wolf Bold or Wolf Daring. Wulfnoth is one spelling but it does differ.

In Britain lot of Christian monasteries and churches were built over the top of springs. In pre-Christian times these springs had sacred connections. Building over these springs announced Christianity as the new dominant religion whilst still keep the ancient connection with springs and underground streams. This explains why churches were often built in obscure locations. A lot of ancient wells that are named after various Saints have pre-Christian origins too.

There is even a Hiberno Norse place name here on the wirral...Frankby ..self explanatory..alongside Irby..place of.. you get the drift...a Frankish influence alongside the Irish ,Angles and Welsh ( Wallasey) ,quite a hybrid place our Peninsula...

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It wasn't "name checked" it was "mentioned", for God's sake!

@@deathcabforcutie3889 Calm down...I certainly won,t be bringing God into it...best wishes from present day Wirral ...mentioned...as home of the only English football club with a viking Hiberno Norse name.

@@eamonnclabby7067 Well if you are proud of Wirral as being the only English football club, then extend that to the English language. Cut out the Americanisms - for God's sake!

@@deathcabforcutie3889 if its good enough for Macca and Elvis Costello aka Declan McManus ,a fellow Birkonian then Americana is good enough for me ,we are carrying on a cultural phenomenon that goes back to the days of the Cunard scousers who brought loads of Blues music and American comics to Merseyside...some older Mariners reckon that process goes back beyond WW2....I wonder what accent God has...it might even be as good as Martin Freeman's in The Responder, as a fellow Irishman ,Dave Allen was wont to say...may your God go with you....E

Not for them it wasn't. For them it was just normal life. And that is a very important point. Probably the greatest insight of the human equation that history gives us: what we regard today as normal, will be regarded as amazing and exotic in the future. Its an excellent basis on which to question our way of life and what we take for granted.

I looked around and found a BBC article mentioning it. Seems it stems from a report from an earlier excavation in 1686 , which claimed to have found a 'humane body nine foot long.' Can't really expand on much in that case if they don't have it. www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/vikings/dig_reports_01.shtml

No, it was only found in Repton-the remains of part of the Great Heathen Army. Some say it was the bones of Ivar the Boneless. It’s not complete speculation either, the chronologies line up and historians support the hypothesis. No reason to doubt the accounts either, it was possible Ivar was just a freakishly big dude. Perhaps he even died due to complications related to his size. It’s notable that none of the graves at Repton displayed fatal combat wounds. Yikes, just did some research. If the bones really were 9 feet long, that warrior would have been the tallest recorded man to have ever lived…not very likely. Chances are it was just a measurement error, the grave was basically plundered after all

Look up the mound people buried all their remains in massive mounds around the world all to be 7-15 feet tall

@@EternalShadow1667 if Ivar was that big it could help add to the name boneless cause people over 6ft usually have issues with their knees popping out so perhaps he had a big issue with that and people used it for his name I’ve always doubt the theory of it being ED because I feel he would have kept that very hidden

@@Badboyteddybear mounds in nb canada, government sent bones to museums and they said they lost them lol

thank you, was looking for something too watch after this video that I hadnt seen before.

@@grimmace9081, I hope you enjoyed it. It's from quite a few years back, but it's just so well done.

@@fuferito I did very much, have quite a few more video's to watch from that series, hadnt seen or heard of it before

@@grimmace9081, Great to hear. Go down that Michael Wood rabbit hole, and enjoy. _In Search of the Trojan War; In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great; Conquistadors; In Search of Shakespeare; In Search of Beowulf._ Awesome stuff.

@@fuferito just finished watching all the "in search of" video's I could find on YT, they were excellent, I especially liked the series on TROY. thanks for mentioning this show.

Go dig one up & you'll find out.

@@sentimentalbloke185 LOL 😆

No. None of the skeletons were. It's a myth.

Sounds like a tall tale to me...ouch..

Yes, and I really appreciated the fact that she presented as an average person - no tatooed face, no pink hair or extravagent hand actions, no look-at-me behaviour, just great knowledge and enthusiasm.

@@msjessies1 seconded...even got my daughter, s attention...mind you all us Tranmere Rovers fans are very Viking obsessed...something to do with our name....Hiberno Norse...

Yes! I just wish he'd make more effort to get it right.

All you know is what the TV show and a game tells you is what it says to me and GOW isn't a viking related game I'm not trying to be mean or anything just saying

@@SittingWolfParanormal420 Nothing wrong with l that, it’s peaked his interest so now he can learn more. People need to realise that learning somthing from a game isn’t a bad thing, it only increases curiosity

It’s a starting point but the tv show barely stretches the surface of Bikings.

What are they going to do? Go find an Asatru pagan priestess? I don’t see them putting up a giant Mjolnir in a church yard. Lol. Tho that would be kinda funny

@@kelvyquayo He means ANYTHING, even a Plaque or something to pay respects to the Great Vikings rather than just covering them up.

Probably the same reason the Russians don’t mark the great German graves

As it sounds, Repton, in Derbyshire.

Repent to Jesus Christ “But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one.” ‭‭2 Thessalonians‬ ‭3:3‬ ‭NIV‬‬ h

you do look like him to be honest, your facial features are similar

What has Switzerland to do with King Harald?

One hell of bragging point. Harald was an absolute legend. Hold your head up proudly and make sure your children know their past!

Holy shit you have a small claim on Norway and England then. But not Sweden 😜